Wednesday, August 15, 2007

CBC reported Bangladeshi author Taslima Nasreen will face criminal charges in India after being accused of stirring up religious enmity. The charges come after Nasreen was attacked at a publication party because of opposition to a translation of her latest book, Shodh, in Hyderabad last week. Several lawmakers and members of a conservative Muslim political party threw flowers and other items at her and called for her death.

Oh their feeling must really have been hurt to throw flowers at her.

Nasreen, author of Wild Wind and Shame, is an exile from her native Bangladesh because of a fatwa against her and a threat by the government to lay charges stemming from her writing. She lived in Sweden and France for several years, but moved to India in 2002.

Probably hoping to get away from the Muslims in Europe.

In articles and books, she writes about the poor treatment of Hindus in mostly Muslim Bangladesh, and rape and mistreatment of women in Muslim societies.

Both reasonable subjects to write about.

A police official in Hyderabad said Nasreen had been charged with "hurting Muslim feelings," according to Agence France Presse.

They must really be unsure of their faith to have their feeling hurt so easily.

Under Indian law, promoting "disharmony or feelings of enmity, hatred or ill will" between religious groups is punishable by up to three years in jail.